Advanced Technologies in Medicine
Thursday, 12th April, 2007

9:20-10:40 Plenary Session

ISRAELI MEDICAL COLLABORATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST : PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Shimon Peres, Vice Prime Minister, Israel

FUTURE CHALLENGES OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES
Mordechai Shani, Gertner National Institute for Health Services Research, Israel

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE
Raphael Beyar, Director General, Rambam Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel

ROBOTICS IMPLEMENTATION IN MODERN MEDICINE
Moshe Shoham, Technion, Israel

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-13:00 Plenary Session (continued)

CURRENT ISSUES IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Joshua Shemer, General Manager, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel

TO SMELL THE SLE-CNS INVOLVEMENT
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Head of Internal Medicine B and Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

HPV VACCINE: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR CERVICAL CANCER
Jacob Bornstein, Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Western Galilee Hospital – Nahariya, Israel
Executive Committee Member, International Federation of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy (IFCPC)

DIAGNOSING DISEASE BY MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRICAL SKIN IMPEDANCE: A NOVAL TECHNIQUE
Eyal Zimlichman, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Department of Internal Medicine B, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

RAMBAM UNDER ATTACK- HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION AT A WAR ZONE
Raphael Beyar, Director General, Rambam Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel

THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Avi Ohry^1,2, Nissim Levy², ¹Director, ²Section of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, Israel

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions (incl. “Complementary Medicine”)

Complementary Medicine
Thursday, 12th April, 2007

This session has not been certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS TO INCORPORATE COMPLEMENTARY, ALTERNATIVE AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Aviad Haramati¹, Michael Lumpkin¹, and Brian Berman^2
1Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA
²University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

NEW USES FOR ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INTEGRATIVE TREATMENT OF PAIN
Brian Berman, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

INTEGRATION OF CAM SERVICES IN THE HOSPITAL SETTING IN ISRAEL
Dorit Gamus¹, Shai Pintov²,
¹Complementary Medicine Service, Sheba Medical Center, Israel; ²Shiram – Integrated Medicine Services, Asaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel

INTRODUCTION TO UNDERSTANDING AND PREPARING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS (Workshop)
Eric Manheimer, Aviad Haramati, Brian Berman, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine, USA

Medical Ethics
Friday, 13th April, 2007

8:30-10:20 JEWISH MEDICAL ETHICS - "STATE OF THE ART"

Rabbis and Physicians – Dialogue or Confrontation?
Shimon Glick, Ben Gurion University, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel

THE TERMINAL PATIENT IN JEWISH SOURCES AND IN MODERN ISRAELI LAW
Avraham Steinberg, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

INTEGRATION OF JEWISH MEDICAL ETHICS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Beni Gesundheit, Hadassah Hebrew University, Israel

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-13:10 MEDICAL ETHICS

MEDICAL ETHICS IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Alan Jotkovits, Department of Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

MEDICAL ETHICS IN THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES (IDF)
Chezi Levi, Chief Surgeon, Israeli Defense Forces, Israel

THE ETHICS OF AN UNAVOIDABLE DEATH – A CASE STUDY OF ALS
Avinoam Reches, Chairman Ethics Committee, Israeli Medical Association, Israel

ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN MODERN HUMAN GENETIC AND REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Michel Revel, Molecular Genetics Department, Weitzman Institute; Chairman, Israeli National Bioethics Council, Israel

CURRENT TREATMENTS FOR LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES AS A SUCCESSFUL MODEL FOR ORPHAN DISEASES
Robert. J. Desnick, Professor and Chairman, Department of Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

Holocaust and Medicine
Sunday, 15th April, 2007

8:40-10:05 Plenary Session: ETHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS PERTAINING TO THE HOLOCAUST

MEDICINE AND THE HOLOCAUST – A GENERAL OVERVIEW
Avi Ohry, Director Section of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, Israel

THE NAZIS AND MEDICAL ETHICS: THE CONTEXT
Patricia Heberer, Ph.D., Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA and American Medical Association, USA

LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST: WHY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION MUST NEVER FORGET
J. Edward Hill, Immediate Past President, American Medical Association, USA

THE NAZIS AND MEDICAL ETHICS: CONTEXT AND LESSONS
Alan L. Wells, Director of Research, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare & Adjunct Instructor, AMA Institute on Ethics, USA

THE ROLE OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN REMEMBRANCE: THE AMA HOLOCAUST LECTURE SERIES FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
Mathew Wynia, Director of the AMA Institute on Ethics, USA

10:05-10:35 Coffee Break

10:35-12:35 Plenary Session: MEDICINE AND THE HOLOCAUST

CANCER INCIDENCE AND SURVIVAL PATTERNS AMONG HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN ISRAEL
Micha Barchana, National Cancer Registry, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Israel

HIP FRACTURES AMONGST HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Joseph Foldes, Director, Osteoporosis Center, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

HUNGER DISEASE, THE YEARS AFTER
Elizur Hazani, Western Galilee Hospital – Nahariya, Israel

HIGHER PREVALENCE OF DECREASED BONE MASS AMONG FEMALE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
E-L. Marcus¹, J. Menczel²,
¹Acute Geriatric Department, Herzog Hospital, Israel; ²Institute of Osteoporosis, Herzog Hospital, Israel

LATE MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS AMONG HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Avi Ohry, Director Section of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, Israel

LIMITS OF STARVATION – PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Dov Weisberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:35-13:15 Parallel Sessions A and B

A. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE HOLOCAUST

THE FORGOTTEN DOCTORS OF THE HOLOCAUST: MAKING ETHICAL CHOICES IN THE MIDST OF TERROR
Tessa Chelouche, International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, Head of Department for Medicine and the Holocaust, Haifa University and Program for the Study of Medicine and the Holocaust, Department of Medical Education, Technion Medical School, Israel

EDUCATIONAL IMPERATIVES: LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Shmuel Reis, The program for the study of the Holocaust and Medicine, Department of Medical Education, the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

B. ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:40 Plenary Session: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AGING AMONG HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

AMCHA – 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TREATING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Nathan Durst, AMCHA and Lecturer at Haifa University, Israel

SEVERE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AMONG AGING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Yoram Barak, Director – Psychogeriatrics, Abarbanel Mental Health Center, Israel

15:40-16:30 Coffee Break